Study finds Grok 4.7 favors Republicans and GPT-6.1 Sol favors Democrats when forced to choose
Forced to pick, Grok’s AI model chooses Republicans. OpenAI’s picks Democrats.
- Who
- Convovo
- What
- published a study Grok and GPT candidate recommendations across nearly 500 midterm races
- Quote
A study by Convovo — a conversational AI research and design studio led by Cornell University professor Tapan Parikh — suggests the models behind those answers aren’t neutral.
What happened
A Convovo study found that, when prompted through APIs to choose candidates across nearly 500 midterm races, Grok 4.7 recommended Republicans in 92% of answers and OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol chose Democrats in 97%. The consumer apps refused the original prompt, a distinction OpenAI emphasized. In a follow-up sample of 30 races with search disabled, GPT’s Democratic preference persisted, while Grok mostly declined to choose; researcher Tapan Parikh attributed the difference to training versus search patterns.
Why it matters
The search-disabled comparison provides a way to distinguish political preferences associated with retrieved sources from those that persist when models rely on their training.
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Convovo found that Grok 4.7 recommended Republicans in 92% of answers and OpenAI’s GPT-6.1 Sol chose Democrats in 97% when prompted through APIs to choose candidates across nearly 500 midterm races. Those results came from API tests; the consumer apps refused the original prompt, a distinction OpenAI emphasized. In a follow-up sample of 30 races with search disabled, GPT-6.1 Sol’s preference for Democrats persisted, while Grok 4.7 mostly declined to choose. Convovo researcher Tapan Parikh attributed that difference to training versus search patterns.
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